All I can say is that God does not want me to get a DoCoMo phone. After being confounded twice before, I felt sure that maybe today was the day. To make a long story short, it turned out not to be. Last week they were on for 1 yen and today when I went with a fairly bi-lingual friend, there were none left at the store. Apparently the store in Shibuya had some but I wasn't going to go all that way. Anyways I suppose I should just take the hint and give up.

I did however manage to spend $170 on a new pair of Doc Martin boots! Wow that number looks a lot more shocking in dollars than it does in yen. 17,000 yen. Hmm, that doesn't look much better. Perhaps I was just in denial about spending more than $60 on a pair of boots.

My computer almost died the other day-it's working now but the future doesn't look good. Basically my computer works fine as long as I never turn it off. So basically it's going to stay on for the next year. But it's going to have to be turned off eventually which could cause problems.